Vertigo

Bowery Electric | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (October 7, 1997)
• Number of Discs: 2
• Label: Beggars Banquet Us
• ASIN: B0000018A6
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #247,202 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

Disc: 1

1. Fear Of Flying

2. Fear Of Flying (Chasm Mix)

3. Black Light (Osymyso Mix)

Disc: 2

1. Without Stopping (Witchman Mix)

2. Coming Down (Immersion Mix)

3. Black Light (Dunderhead Mix)

4. Empty Worlds (Twisted Science Mix)

5. Fear Of Flying (Third Eye Foundation Mix)

6. Elementary Particles (Main Mix)

Editorial Reviews

1-1. Fear Of Flying 5:39 1-2. Fear Of Flying (Chasm Mix) 6:57 Remix - Robert Hampson 1-3. Black Light (Osymyso Mix) 6:06 2-1. Without Stopping (Witchman Mix) 14:47 2-2. Coming Down (Immersion Mix) 6:05 2-3. Black Light (Dunderhead Mix) 5:09 2-

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Innovative ambient-guitar-rock, September 4, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Vertigo (Audio CD)

"Vertigo" contains some remixes by other experimental guitar-rock and ambient groups. The results are hit-and-miss, but several good tracks with a strong rhythmic backing and a dark atmosphere. My absolute favourite is the "Elementary..remix" from Main, this is one of the best tracks either artist has recorded. You should listen to this track with good headphones or a Dolby Surround System to obtain maximum effect. If some tracks hadn't been so lengthy, I would have rated this record with 5 stars.

3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars whoosh & drone & beats..., August 23, 1998

By A Customer

This review is from: Vertigo (Audio CD)

Essentially this is a collection of remixes of songs from Bowery Electric's excellent album 'Beat'. Beautiful sonic reconstructions from the likes of Witchman, Third Eye Foundation, and Twisted Science build on Bowery's whoosh & drone & beats sound. My only complaint is that they could have included more on Disc I, but this is still a wonderful release.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Experimental electronica doesn't hold your hand..., May 22, 2003

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Nathan B. Hyatt "Psychonaut" (San Francisco) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Vertigo (Audio CD)

These remixes are great. Starting with the best album track off of Beat (Fear of Flying), you get to hear two very cool remixes of that track on disc 1, and on disc 2 there are a host of other tunes remixed to sound nothing like their originals. In other words, just what a good remix album sounds like.

I don't know why people don't like this cd; I can only guess that because it sounds quite different than Bowery Electric at (many) times, the fans were expecting something else. Well, what you get is artcore electronica in the vein of Autechre and other techno artists who don't make particularly danceable music (that's debatable, of course), but do make for fascinating listening.

So, to reiterate, what we've got here is excellent noise (a much more inclusive term than music), and I don't see why anyone shouldn't enjoy it, except that they must've come to the party with pre-conceived notions about it sounding more like Bowery Electric (you know, slow, mellow, little dynamics or development, but really cool, of course). If you're a fan of BE, you owe it to yourself to check this out. Just be warned...